The U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce the 2022-23 lists of Fulbright Top Producing Institutions. More than 170 higher education institutions from across the United States are being recognized for having the highest number of accepted applicants to the Fulbright U.S. Student and Fulbright U.S. Scholar Programs. The lists of Fulbright Top Producing Institutions highlight the Fulbright Program’s strong institutional diversity and impact on American communities across the country.
The State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, in collaboration with the Institute of International Education, compiles the lists, which group institutions by Carnegie Classification. The Chronicle of Higher Education publishes the lists in its online edition.
Topping this year’s lists of Doctoral, Master’s, and Baccalaureate institutions with the most accepted Fulbright U.S. Students are Georgetown University (DC), Salisbury University (MD), andBowdoin College (ME). The University of Arizona (AZ) and the Pennsylvania State University (PA), the University of Houston-Downtown (TX), Kenyon College (OH), and the University of California-San Francisco (CA) had the most applicants selected for the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program in the Doctoral, Master’s, Baccalaureate, and Special-focus institutions degree categories, respectively. Fulbright Students are recent college graduates, graduate students, and early career professionals while Fulbright Scholars are faculty, researchers, administrators, and established professionals.
Eighteen institutions are recognized as Fulbright Dual Top Producing Institutions, appearing on the lists of schools sending both the most Fulbright U.S. Students and the most U.S. Scholars overseas in 2022-2023. Harvard University (MA), SUNY College at Geneseo (NY), and Bates College (ME) and Oberlin College (OH) lead the Doctoral, Master’s, and Baccalaureate categories. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (IL) is the one 4-year Special-focus institution to make both lists.
Twelve U.S. community colleges are recognized on the list for sending Fulbright U.S. Scholars abroad, with the Lone Star College System (TX) receiving the most acceptances in 2022-23.
For a full list of all Fulbright Top Producing Institutions by category, please visit the Fulbright Top Producing Institutions website.
“On behalf of President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken, congratulations to the colleges and universities recognized as 2022-2023 Fulbright Top Producing Institutions, and to all the applicants who were selected for the Fulbright Program this year,” said Lee Satterfield, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. “Thanks to the visionary leadership of these institutions, administrators, and advisors, a new generation of Fulbrighters – changemakers, as I like to say – will catalyze lasting impact on their campus, in their communities, and around the world.”
For over 75 years, the Fulbright Program has provided more than 400,000 participants - chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential - with the opportunity to exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to challenges facing our communities and our world.
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